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Autore |
Meyer David |
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Early Tahitian poetics / / by David Meyer |
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Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (462 p.) |
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Collana |
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Pacific Linguistics [PL] ; ; 641 |
Pacific linguistics, , 1448-8310 ; ; 641 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Poetics |
Tahitian language |
Folk poetry |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Tables and figures -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Meter -- Chapter 3. Sound Parallelism -- Chapter 4. Syntactic and semantic parallelism -- Chapter 5. Manner of composition -- Chapter 6. Summary and interpretation -- Chapter 7. Conclusion -- Appendix A. List of grammatical abbreviations -- Appendix B. The pattern detection process -- Appendix C. Automated method for pre- and post-1850 assignment -- References -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Tahiti has a rich history of oral tradition. Early visitors to the island transcribed recitations of myth, battle address, and land description. Until now their poetic organization has remained unexplored. From a computationally assisted analysis, this book describes early use of meter and parallelism and speculates on manner of composition. It sheds light on a poetic style unanticipated for Polynesia and remarkable among world poetries. |
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